One Man Quotes - Page 34

• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
  To do our country loss; and if to live,
  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
  God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Loss, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

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• A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

  Alan Lightman

  Men, Desert, Tents

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.

  Ani DiFranco

  Men, Mountain, Population

  Interview with Courtney Phenicie, cincymusic.com. November 23, 2017.

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• When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.

  Edward Norton

  Teacher, Men, Thinking

  "It's Edward Norton Day!". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Interview Magazine, www.interview.de. May, 2006.

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• Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Numbers, People

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Faults, Conversation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.321

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• What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

  Flemming Rose

  Hate, Men, Speech

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Taken, Men, Orange

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, People, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

  Aziz Ansari

  Men, Play, Like You

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

  George Carlin

  Children, Men, Cases

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Husband, Men, Feminist

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• If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2639, Manonmani Publishers

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• A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

  Willa Cather

  Food, Men, Years

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.38, Vintage

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• The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.212, Anchor

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• One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, World, May

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• At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

  Robert Payne

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

  Bear Bryant

  Team, Men, Alabama Football

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• One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Pay, Life Or Death

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• What is one man's gain is another's loss.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Loss, Men, Gains

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Winning, Iraq

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• You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Men, Needs

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• I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Enthusiasm, Complacent

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